Cuba Playoffs: Ciego de Avila is the champion at the 51st National Serie

Ciego de Avila won its first Cuban baseball championship in style, defeating Industriales, the favorite from Havana, 4-3 in 11 innings on Monday night. Read More

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Marco Rubio visits Guantanamo Bay in Cuba

Rubio, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to spend one day at the base to learn more about U.S. operations there, Rubio spokesman Alex Conant said. Rubio is not planning to leave the property, which the U.S. government leases from the island nation. Read More

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Native Cuban Prendes rowing for Americans in Olympics

Robin Prendes of west Miami-Dade will compete in the 2012 London Games after qualifying last week in Switzerland. Read More

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Jose Mendieta on the way to the Pan-American Combined Events Cup title

Emerging Cuban athletes Jose Mendieta and Yorgelis Rodriguez took the top honours at the inaugural Pan American Combined Events Cup held at the Terry Fox Athletics Facility in the Canadian capital over the weekend (26-27). Read More

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US-Cuba Coral Symposium 2012 joins choirs from Cuba and US in Havana

As part of the US-Cuba Coral Symposium 2012 until May 30, the Cuban National Choir and the Cardinal Singer of the U.S. University of Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday staged a concert reaffirming the gradual rapprochement of the two countries in the artistic sphere in recent years. Read More

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